‘Pinkerton’’s most frivolous grunge pop moment had Rivers unwittingly falling in love with a lesbian – the inevitable fate of anyone, of any persuasion, who happens to watch an Ellen Page film. The Bad Life is over the let the booty shaking and 24-hour sweet love recommence. Often taken as one of Cuomo’s most brutal lyrics – “broken, beaten down/Can’t even get around without an old man cane… I’m bitter and alone… I should have no feeling, ‘cause feeling is pain” – ‘The Good Life’ actually bristles with determination and resolve. In which Cuomo looks in the mirror during his time at Harvard, sees a decrepit “old man” in a leg brace (to correct a long-standing issue) getting shunned by the keg kids, and vows to get himself back on the party train. Weezer’s finest electro-pop song by several light years, this stand-out from 2005’s ‘Make Believe’ nodded to later-era ELO with its retro sci-fi synth throbs and slick pop chorus. Here, monstrous and ragged riff paeans like ‘No Other One’ amplified all of the angst and fire of ‘My Name Is Jonas’, ‘Surf Wax America’ and ‘In The Garage’ into a desperate, screaming waltz. Following the success of Weezer’s debut ‘Blue Album’, Rivers Cuomo fled from the limelight to study at Harvard, pouring all of the lovelorn dislocation and isolation he felt there into dark, gritty and seminal second album ‘Pinkerton’, Weezer’s undoubted masterpiece.
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